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Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams
Louisa Thomas
Paperback: 04/04/2017
An intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the ...
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Karen Abbott
Paperback: 09/08/2015
Karen Abbott tells the stories of four courageous women - a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a ...
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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
Matthew Goodman
Paperback: 03/11/2014
1889: Two women, successful journalists and writers, set off in a desperate rate in opposite directions, each ...
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
David McCullough
Paperback: 05/15/2012
The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring - and until now, untold - story of the adventurous American ...
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Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
Rosemary Mahoney
Paperback: 09/15/2008
In 1998 Rosemary Mahoney took a solo trip down the Nile in a seven-foot rowboat. This is the unforgettable ...
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The Land That Never Was: Sir Gregor MacGregor and the Most Audacious Fraud in History
David Sinclair
Paperback: 01/01/2005
The bizarre tale of a 19th century land swindle by 'Sir Gregor MacGregor', who conned hundreds of people into ...
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The Journals of Susanna Moodie: Poems
Margaret Atwood
Paperback: 08/15/1970
The poetic/artistic exploration of what it means to find yourself thrown into a hostile environment, these ...
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